I need some reccomendations

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<p>I’m halfway through junior year (class of 2013) and looking to start on college visits, but I’m not really interesting in any particular college, and I don’t know where to start looking. I’m home-schooled, so I don’t have a guidance counselor to talk to, and I’m rather short on extra-curriculars. I’m in Kentucky and I want something within a five or six hour drive; I also want to pay the least amount of money possible, so anywhere I could get a scholarship would be awesome. I intend to go into medicine, if that helps.</p>

<p>ACT:
Composites of 24 (8th grade), 28 (9th), and 30 (10th).
Composite of 32 when I took it this summer.
English - 35
Reading - 36
Math - 26
Science - 31
Writing - 8 (This was my first time taking it)
I intend to take it another time or two before I graduate, to try and get the writing and math up.
Haven’t taken the SAT, and am waiting on my PSAT scores, though I doubt I got anywhere close to national merit. If I can wrangle it, I intend to take the MCAT for practice at the end of senior year,</p>

<p>I’m taking classes at the local community college; by the time I graduate, I’ll have had 1.5 years of calculus, 2 years of chemistry, 1 year of english, and 1 year of either physics or biology, along with assorted intro classes. I’ll also have a double associates in Arts and Sciences. I’ve gotten all A’s so far.</p>

<p>I won 2nd place and 3rd place at the college poetry contest, and received an honorable mention at the college essay contest. My extra-curriculars consist solely of church youth group, week-long summer choir camp, and a little bit of volunteer work at the church office.</p>

<p>Thanks for any help!</p>

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<p>You don’t say if you like a large or small school, an urban environment or other important things. Lots of schools have pre-med programs and good ones too. Just be careful because medical schools don’t like to see too many of your science courses taken at a Community College. They downgrade your application a bit for that.</p>

<p>Anyway, if you have any inclination for a tech school in either science or engineering, look at the smaller [Association</a> of Independent Technological Universities: AITU](<a href=“http://theaitu.org%5DAssociation”>http://theaitu.org) schools. Many of them have good financial aid packages. </p>

<p>Finally, if you have so much CC credit, you are actually a transfer student and your ACT scores are less important. At my university, [Illinois</a> Institute of Technology](<a href=“http://www.iit.edu%5DIllinois”>http://www.iit.edu), the ACTs aren’t even requested for transfer students.</p>

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If the state offers dual credit for HS then the OP can still apply as a freshman. </p>

<p>OP, if you are in KY then you should first look at your in-state schools - UK, KU, EKU, WKU, etc. If you live in one of the northern KY counties you would have in-state status for U Cincinnati. [Kentucky</a> Reciprocity, University of Cincinnati](<a href=“http://www.uc.edu/registrar/residency_reciprocity_metro/kentucky_reciprocity.html]Kentucky”>http://www.uc.edu/registrar/residency_reciprocity_metro/kentucky_reciprocity.html) You might get some good merit aid at Alabama or UAB.</p>